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NEW HOLLAND CORMORANT. 



(Plialacrocorax Novae FloUandise.) 



Ph. corpore nigro subtus variegato, pennis tectricibus alarum paU 

 tide margin atis, illis colli rufo marginaiis, orbitis Jlavis. 



Cormorant with the body blacky variegated beneath, the feathers 

 of the wing-coverts with pale edges, and of the neck with rufous 

 margins, orbits yellow. 



New Holland Shag. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 431. 



" Length twenty inches : beak two inches and a 

 half long, and pale : round the eye bare and pale 

 yellow : plumage on the upper part in general black : 

 the feathers on the wing-coverts have pale edges, and 

 those of the neck fringed with rufous : under parts 

 paler and mottled : tail six inches long, composed of 

 twelve feathers, cuneiform : legs black. Inhabits New 

 Holland." — Latham. 



BLACK AND WHITE CORMORANT. 



(Phalacrocorax melanoleucos,) 



Ph. corpore supra nigro, subtus super ciliisque albis, rostro cameo, 

 pedibus nigris. 



Cormorant with the body above black, beneath and eyebrows 



white, the beak flesh-colour, the legs black. 

 Pelecanus melanoleucos. VieiL N'ouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. torn. 



8. 88. 



